So on Woz's website, she uses the smell of burning wool and silk to differentiate them. My problem is that she wrote that burning silk smells like burning meat? And I know smells are subjective, but what are your guys' takes? Idk, it just seems off to me that it would smell like burning meat. Besid...

You are given a mass spectra of a gas that has a molecular ion peak at m/z = 44. The largest peak is at m/z = 29 and there is a small peak at m/z = 15. What was the gas? Argon? I have no idea how to actually do these so that's probably wrong. Think about how a mass spectrometer works - when the sam...

I think this is going to be one of the best scioly state competitions ever. Especially for Division C, we have Munster and Caramel fighting for a spot every year, but now we have a new contender, BHS South. In my opinion, I think no one expected them to be that close to going to Nats and I think th...

The list of attending teams for the 2020 Invitational has been posted on our website. You may access it via this link: http://scioly.mit.edu/teams Congratulations to the accepted teams and thank you to all who applied. We look forward to welcoming you to our campus in January! Looks like a pretty h...

It still seems strange that this is no longer a Posting Game...

The Scioly.org staff doesn't see it as a true posting game

Does anyone have tips on building salinometers? You could consult Water Quality teammates and resources for that since building a salinometer has been a part of that event throughout all of its existence. Most of the ones I've seen use a straw with clay on one end and are calibrated empirically. Th...

The only musical I've seen is Dear Evan Hansen, which I loooove

I’m going to see it next weekend!

Anyone have PWL regional results from last year? The avagadro account subscription ended. . .

Purdue hasn't even updated their website for the state tournament yet either

I think Purdue has a new website for the state tournament: https://purduescioly.org/

The schedule is also up now

:ooooooo

storm scioly.org - the admins can't stop all of us

I mean the only way to stop something like that would be to ban users, and probably several of them might be spambots

When I was in high school, we did long sleeves mainly. My final year, we did both short and long sleeve since there was enough interest in short sleeve, even tho most people only bought one kind, and when nats rolled around, the short sleeves sure came in handy, haha. We also do special edition shir...